Earlier also, Gandhi had made similar bloopers that were heavily trolled by netizens. A few days back, while addressing the students at the University of California at Berkeley, the Amethi MP got the number of seats in the Lok Sabha wrong. Interacting with the students, Rahul Rahul said the number of seats in the Lower House was 546, not 545

Last month, the Congress vice-president while inaugurating the first 'Indira canteen' in Bengaluru, he mistakenly referred to it as 'Amma canteen'.

Saturday, 19 August 2017

Bhopal: BJP President Amit Shah has said his party has not come to power for mere 5 or 10 years, but at least 50 years and called upon workers to strengthen the party and take it to every part of the country.

Shah also said that though the BJP appears to be at its peak with a majority government at the Centre and 1,387 MLAs in states the workers feel the party has still a long way to go.

The BJP President reminded the activists that the party has become a political force to reckon with due to hard work, dedication and sacrifice of its leaders over the years.

Today the BJP has become a party of 10-12 crore members because of many stalwarts who have dedicated their lives in building and strengthening the organisation, said Shah, according to the release.

"We have to ensure no place in the country is left where we don't have our flag. For this, we have to strengthen the organisation further," Shah said.

"Character is the basis of our foundation," he said, and called upon the BJP workers to ensure the party is present in every (polling) booth, from Kashmir to Kanyakumari and from Kamrup to Kutch.

Tuesday, 25 July 2017

Hyderabad/Vijayawada: Incessant rains for the second consecutive day on Tuesday affected normal life in Hyderabad and some towns in Telangana and neighbouring Andhra Pradesh.

Some low-lying areas in Hyderabad were inundated while roads were flooded, causing traffic jams.

Heavy rains also threw normal life out of gear in Vijayawada. Low-lying areas were inundated, causing hardships to people. The downpour led to traffic jams in several busy areas in and around the city, including the road which connects Vijayawada to Amaravati, the upcoming state capital of Andhra Pradesh.

For the second time this season, rain water entered Andhra Pradesh Secretariat at Velagapudi in Amaravati. The Secretariat building was leaking at a few points and affected offices.

Municipal Administration Minister P. Narayana, however, claimed that there are no defects in the SEcretariat`s construction.

Meanwhile, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) has warned that heavy rain at a few places and very heavy rain to extremely heavy rain at isolated places is "very likely to occur" in all the districts of coastal Andhra Pradesh over the next two days.

Heavy to very heavy rains at isolated places in all districts of Telangana also are very likely during the period, the IMD said.

Thursday, 20 July 2017

Mumbai: Indian banks may have to write off 60 percent of the value of bad loans from their 50 large stressed asset accounts, or a hit of 2.4 trillion rupees ($37.31 billion), ratings agency CRISIL said on Wednesday.

The 50 stressed companies, which account for 4 trillion rupees in soured loans, are largely from the metals, construction and power industries and account for nearly half of the total non-performing assets in the banking sector as of the end of March, CRISIL said.

Banks had total non-performing loans of about 7.29 trillion rupees, or 5 percent of India`s gross domestic product, as of end-March.

The report comes after rival India Ratings and Research had estimated banks taking 12 of the country`s largest defaulters to bankruptcy court would need to make additional provisioning of at least 180 billion rupees.

Friday, 19 May 2017

Dehradun: A triple talaq casualty from Uttarakhand has debilitated to submit suicide if the framework neglects to guarantee her equity.

A five-judge Constitution seat headed by Chief Justice JS Khehar on Thursday finished up its listening ability on a grasp of supplications testing the sacred legitimacy of triple talaq among Muslims in the wake of hearing gatherings including the Center, the All India Muslim Personal Law Board, the All India Muslim Women Personal Law Board and different others for six days in summer get-away.

The court observed rehashed entries of the AIMPLB and previous Union clergyman and senior attorney Salman Khurshid, who is helping it in individual limit, that triple talaq is not specified in sacred Quran and is fairly "corrupt", "sporadic", "patriarchal", "awful in religious philosophy" and "undesirable", however the court ought not look at it.

A few Muslim ladies, who have asserted to be a casualty of the "patriarchal" practice, have spoke to PM Modi to dispose of the separation framework winning in the group.

Thursday, 18 May 2017

Washington: Scandals inside the Trump organization are coming to the "size and scale" of Watergate, conspicuous Republican pioneer John McCain, a staunch faultfinder of US President Donald Trump, has said.

"I think we've seen this motion picture some time recently. I think it shows up at a point where it's of Watergate size and scale. The shoes kept on dropping, and in each couple of days there's another angle," Senator McCain, Chairman of the effective Senate Armed Services Committee told a crowd of people at a Republican occasion yesterday."Less dramatization from the flip side of Pennsylvania would be something to be thankful for," Senator John Thune told columnists.

"Would we be able to have an emergency free day?" asked Senator Susan Collins, another Republican Senator.

"I think we could do with somewhat less show from the White House on a considerable measure of things so we can concentrate on our plan, which is deregulations, impose reorganizations and revoking and supplanting Obama Care," Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell told Bloomberg.

Watergate was a noteworthy political outrage that happened in the US in the 1970s, which finished in abdication of the then president Richard Nixon.

Trump has been assailed with allegations over the previous week. A week ago, he unexpectedly let go previous FBI Director James Comey, which concerned some as a result of the office's examination concerning Russia and his battle.

Wednesday, 10 May 2017

LONDON: Britain said on Friday it could acquaint a scrappage conspire with get the most dirtying autos and vans off its streets and charge a few drivers of old vehicles to enter parts of the nation, as it endeavors to enhance air quality.

Media had revealed priests were thinking about a scrappage plot that would surrender drivers to 2,000 pounds ($2,600) to exchange gas-swallowing models, however in Friday's meeting archive, authorities set various conditions for such an arrangement.

"Any plan would need to offer some incentive for cash, target bolster where it was most required, be deliverable at neighborhood specialist level and limit the extension for misrepresentation," the earth service said in a report discharged on Friday.

The interview is because of close on June 15, with results not expected until July 31.

The proposed measures will probably quicken the decay of diesel autos in Europe's second greatest market, rebuked for poor air quality in the wake of Volkswagen's outflows test deceiving embarrassment.

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Tuesday, 9 May 2017

Washington: Capitalizing on a strangely high number of court opportunities, US President Donald Trump was on Monday set to reveal his initially real tranche of legal chosen people in an activity that will enable him to re-arrange the government legal.

Trump will name three different chosen people to the redrafting courts: Amy Coney Barrett to the seventh Circuit, John Bush to the Sixth Circuit and Kevin Newsom to the eleventh Circuit.

The President likewise plans to name four government District Court candidates: Dabney Friedrich in the District of Columbia, Terry Moorer in Alabama, David Nye in Idaho and Scott Palk in Oklahoma, and additionally Damien Schiff to the US Court of Federal Claims.

The rundown of legal chosen people was affirmed to Politico news by a Trump guide.

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